Catching you up on the previous week’s most notable product releases.
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One other week down, and, per ordinary, a bunch of recent tech and devices have been introduced.
This previous week, Professional-Ject teamed up with WiiM on a compact streaming amplifier, Leica launched a beautiful rangefinder to have a good time its 100-year historical past, and Garmin unleashed a rival to the Apple Watch Extremely. However that’s simply scratching the floor.
Under, we’ve rounded up all probably the most attention-grabbing new releases and bulletins you might need missed from the previous week.
Professional-Ject
Professional-Ject Uni Field S3
The Professional-Ject Uni Field S3 is a brand new streaming amplifier that, in keeping with the model, “masterfully bridges the worlds of analogue and streaming.” It’s the Austrian hi-fi maker’s first streaming amplifier to assist Wi-Fi streaming (all different fashions are Bluetooth solely), which it was capable of obtain by partnering with WiiM, one of many greatest names in budget-friendly streamers; the Uni Field S3 is appropriate with the Professional-Ject Dwelling app, which is constructed on WiiM OS. Moreover, the streaming amp is able to delivering 40 watts per channel (into 4 ohms) or 23 watts (into 8 ohms), making it ideally suited to drive environment friendly bookshelf-sized audio system with excessive sensitivities.
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$1,099 at Professional-Ject
Leica
Leica M11-D (100 Years of Leica)
To have a good time the model’s 100-year historical past, Leica has launched a sequence of unique “100 Years of Leica” version cameras, with the Leica M11-D being the standout. The special-edition rangefinder digicam options the identical guts as the usual M11, together with a 60-megapixel full-frame CMOS picture sensor and Maestro III processor. Nonetheless, it comes with two interchangeable lenses, the Leica Summilux-M 50 f/1.4 ASPH and the Leitz Anastigmat-M 50 f/3.5, the latter of which is a reimagined model of the mounted Leitz Anastigmat 50mm f/3.5 lens that got here with the 1925-released Leica I. It additionally options some aesthetic adjustments, together with brass high and backside plates, and a black paint end that resembles the unique Leica I. With the acquisition, Leica contains a number of equipment (carry strap and SD card case) for the digicam and homes all of it in stunning shiny black picket field.
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Bluesound
Bluesound Powernode (2025)
Bluesound has launched a brand new and improved model of its 2021-released Powernode streaming amplifier. The 2025 iteration carries an identical design (and title) and works mainly the identical, too. Nonetheless, it’s extra highly effective — able to driving 100 watts per channel as an alternative of 80 watts — and helps bigger house theater methods. It includes a third pair of binding posts for a middle channel speaker, that means you possibly can create a 3.1-channel house theater setup. If you wish to construct it even additional right into a 5.1-channel system, you possibly can add wi-fi rear-channel audio system, resembling Bluesound’s Pulse Flex ($299), utilizing BluOS Bonded Speaker Hyperlink.
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$1,199 at Bluesound
Cambridge Audio
Cambridge Audio Evo 150 SE
Cambridge Audio’s Evo 150 is a gorgeous, “simply add audio system” streaming amplifier designed for contemporary audiophiles preferring to not cope with a conventional element rack. It was initially launched in 2021. Now, with the SE (“Particular Version”) model, the British hi-fi maker is introducing an up to date model with almost similar capabilities, however guarantees of improved efficiency. Like the unique, the Evo 150 SE helps high-resolution streaming over Wi-Fi and, at 150 watts per channel, is able to driving some fairly critical loudspeakers. However the massive distinction is that it has a brand new Class D amplifier module that’s been retuned to ship a extra detailed, immersive sound.
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$3,299 at Cambridge Audio
iFi
iFi Go pod Max
The Go Pod Max is iFi’s most high-end Go Pod, a Bluetooth DAC and headphone amplifier that replaces the cables of in-ear displays (IEMs), permitting you to make use of them like a pair of wi-fi earbuds. In keeping with the model, they promise to set “a daring new benchmark for uncompromising wi-fi audio.” They arrive geared up with a flagship Qualcomm QCC5181 chipset, which permits the Go Pod Max to obtain CD-quality audio fully cable-free, with zero knowledge loss, when utilizing the aptX Lossless codec. Moreover, they’re built-in with the model’s K2HD expertise, which goals to additional improve the sound by restoring tracks nearer to their authentic recorded high quality.
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$599 at iFi Audio
$599 at Bloom Audio
Nomad
Nomad Leather-based Magazine Pockets
Nomad has launched its tackle the MagSafe pockets. It really works like different choices on the market, magnetically sticking to the again of your iPhone and able to holding as much as 4 bank cards, however the Leather-based Magazine Pockets is crafted from real Horween Leather-based and guarantees to develop a patina over time. It additionally comes built-in with Nomad’s Monitoring Card ($29), so it helps Apple’s Discover My community and has a battery (which might wirelessly recharge) that has a roughly four-month battery life. It is available in black or brown leather-based finishes.
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$80 at Nomad
JBL
JBL Endurance Zone
JBL’s Endurance Zone is the corporate’s first pair of wi-fi earbuds with an open-ear design, that means that they naturally allow you to hear the world round you — particularly site visitors or different folks within the fitness center — as you’re employed out. The ear-hook-style earbuds are extraordinarily rugged, boasting an IP68 score that permits them to resist water and sweat; in addition they function a “JBL PulseDry” operate that vibrates the motive force to filter out moisture after a exercise. Every earbud guarantees as much as 8 hours of battery life, with the case including a complete of 24 hours.
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Garmin
Garmin Venu X1
The Garmin Venu X1 is a smartwatch that appears set to rival the Apple Watch Extremely 2. It’s the model’s first smartwatch to have a sq. form much like Apple’s premium mannequin. It additionally boasts the most important show and thinnest physique of any Garmin smartwatch so far. So far as the function set, the Venu X1 is sort of much like Garmin’s Fenix 8 or Forerunner 970, though its 2-day battery life (with the always-on show turned on) falls quick in comparison with these different Garmin fashions. It’s obtainable in two finishes, black or darkish inexperienced.
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$800 at Amazon
$800 at Garmin
Stax
Stax SR-007S
Stax is a storied Japanese hi-fi firm that makes a speciality of electrostatic headphones — or, because it calls them, electrostatic earspeakers. It’s been making them for the reason that early Nineteen Sixties. The Stax SR-007S is an up to date model of the unique SR-007 and its successor, the SR-007A, which had been launched in 1998 and 2007, respectively. In comparison with these fashions, the SR-007S options up to date diaphragms and glued electrodes, which Stax says “elevates sound element readability whereas sustaining deep, resonant tones.” In addition they have a brand new Anti-Resonance Construction (ARS) impressed by model’s flagship SR-X9000 electrostatic headphone, which guarantees to result in a fair purer sound. Moreover, Stax has geared up the SR-007S with new sheepskin earpads.
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$2,390 at Stax Audio
$2,390 at Stax Headphones
Dali
Dali IO-12 (Mocha Gray)
Initially launched in 2023, the Dali IO-12 is the Danish loudspeaker maker’s most premium noise-canceling wi-fi headphones — and, in truth, they’re some of the costly choices on the market. They’re distinctive as a result of their 50mm drivers function the model’s patented Tender Magnetic Compound (SMC) magnet expertise, which helps drastically scale back distortion. This is similar tech that Dali makes use of in lots of its high-end loudspeakers. Thus far, the Dali IO-12s have solely been obtainable in a single coloration, Darkish Chocolate, however now the corporate is introducing a brand new coloration for 2025: Mocha Gray.
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$1,499 at Dali
Yamaha
Yamaha YH-L500A
Yamaha is a storied Japanese audio firm greatest identified for its numerous traces of AV receivers, which function the central hub of some critical house theater methods. Now, the model has launched a pair of wi-fi headphones designed for watching films on the go. The YH-L500A works on any Bluetooth-enabled gadget — so your smartphone, laptop computer, or pill — and options Yamaha’s proprietary Sound Area expertise that guarantees to create a three-dimensional listening expertise. Principally, it sounds such as you’re watching the film within the theater. The headphones have two modes, Cinema or Music, to sound greatest primarily based on the way you’re utilizing them.
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$230 at Yamaha
Twelve South
Twelve South Curve Nano
Thus far, Twelve South’s Curve stands have solely been designed for Apple’s MacBooks (in addition to the iMac). They elevate your laptop off the desk right into a extra ergonomic place. However now, with the Curve Nano, the Apple accent maker has made a Curve that’s designed for the iPhone. It’s a MagSafe stand that’s tremendous light-weight and folds flat, making it very pocketable and travel-friendly. It can be adjusted to carry your iPhone in both a horizontal or vertical orientation at virtually any angle. It’s obtainable in three colours: dune, slate or coastal blue.
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$35 at Twelve South
Tucker Bowe has been on Gear Patrol’s editorial group since 2014. As a Tech Workers Author, he tracks every thing within the client tech area, from headphones to smartphones, wearables to house theater methods. If it lights up or makes noise, he in all probability covers it.
